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Featured article: January 19, 2007

El Greco was a prominent painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco was born in Crete, which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, and at 26 travelled to Venice to study. In 1570 he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance. In 1577 he emigrated to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo El Greco received several major commissions and produced his best known paintings. El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century. El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism, while his personality and works were a source of inspiration for poets and writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis. El Greco has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school. He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western civilization. (more...)

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Senior American military officials of World War II. Seated are (from left to right) Gens. William H. Simpson, George S. Patton, Carl A. Spaatz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Courtney H. Hodges, and Leonard T. Gerow; standing are (from left to right) Gens. Ralph F. Stearley, Hoyt Vandenberg, Walter Bedell Smith, Otto P. Weyland, and Richard E. Nugent.

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Featured list: List of counties in Kentucky

This is a list of the one hundred and twenty counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Despite ranking 37^th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, third in the U.S. behind Texas's 254 and Georgia's 159.

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County	FIPS Code ^[1]	County seat ^[2]	Established ^[2]	Origin	Etymolgy	Population ^[2]	Area ^[2]
Adair County	001	Columbia	1802	Green County	John Adair, Governor of Kentucky (1820–1824)	&0000000000017244.00000017,244	&0000000000000407.000000407 sq mi (&0000000000001054.0000001,054 km²)
Allen County	003	Scottsville	1815	Barren County and Warren County	John Allen (1771–1813), soldier in the War of 1812	&0000000000017800.00000017,800	&0000000000000346.000000346 sq mi (&0000000000000896.000000896 km²)
Anderson County	005	Lawrenceburg	1827	Franklin County, Washington County and Mercer County	Richard Clough Anderson, Jr., Kentucky and United States legislator (1817–1821)	&0000000000019111.00000019,111	&0000000000000203.000000203 sq mi (&0000000000000526.000000526 km²)
Ballard County	007	Wickliffe	1842	Hickman County and McCracken County	Bland Ballard (1761–1853), soldier in the Battle of Fallen Timbers and Battle of River Raisin	&0000000000008286.0000008,286	&0000000000000251.000000251 sq mi (&0000000000000650.000000650 km²)

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